How Musicians Hear Shapes

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Жыл бұрын

Why aren't musicians good at describing sounds? What does it mean when somethings sounds heavy, or light, or sharp, or round, or creamy, or smooth? There are a million words to describe a sound, so why do some descriptors just sound right and others do not? In this in depth music theory video we explore that very topic by looking at theories and ideas from linguistics, psychology and music cognition to see what we can apply to music. We look into the work of the german psychologist Wolfgang Köhler who is credited with the creation of the Kiki/Bouba effect, spatial music perception and linguistic cognition work of Felix Faire and some of my own crackpot theories about how there exists a trend for all musicians to interpret shapes as music in the same way. We go through a brief history of graphic scores in order to try and understand the relationship between shapes and sound, and gleam insight into graphic score interpretation. Somewhere along the way we conduct an experiment where we borrow the popular "4 producers flip the same sample" format, but instead it's "3 musicians interpret the same graphic score". We then analyze each of our interpretations of the same score by breaking down the music theory, harmony, rhythms, and timbres between each of our individual interpretations. Huge thanks to MAYSUN, Julian Schoming, and Krispy for participating in this sound design interpretation challenge/experiment. It was a blast! and hopefully we shed some light on the effect linguistics has on music, and the effect shapes has on sounds. Links to everyones stuff, and the research I sited will be down below.
Levis Links:
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MAYSUNS Links:
MAYSUN's Landing Page & Free Samples: www.maysun.ca/instalinks
MAYSUN's KZfaq: / maysunmusic
MAYSUN's Instagram: / maysun.music
Krispy's Links:
Krispy's Website: www.krispy-music.com/
Krispy's KZfaq: / krispythesiren
Krispy's Instagram: / krispythesiren
Julian Schoming:
Julian's New Single: vibe.to/JulianSchoming
Julian's Instagram: / brotherjuju
Julian's Tiktok: / julianschoming
Julian's Website: www.julianschoming.com/
Research Links:
Music Aided Design: The Foundations of Spatial Music by Felix Faire: felixfaire.com/synaestheticsp...
A Brief History of Graphic Score Notation: www.doc.cc/articles/graphic-n...
Mark Applebaum's The Metaphysics of Notation (one of the coolest graphic scores out there):
web.stanford.edu/~applemk/oth...
More in Depth paper on the Kiki Bouba Experiment: royalsocietypublishing.org/do...
The condensed but somehow as in depth Tom Scott version: • Which Is "Bouba", and ...
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@KrispyDeRato Жыл бұрын

Thank you for having me be a part of this! And it was so exciting to hear the other perspectives on the same ideas.

@LeviMcClain Жыл бұрын

Those whistle tones of yours tho! Seriously, your interpretation gave us all chills, so awesome. Really appreciate you taking the time to be a part of this project.

@KevinMantheiMusic Жыл бұрын

Loved your piece!!

@johncasey9544 Жыл бұрын

Damn Julian's interpretation felt spot on, especially the swell at the end of the second part. This video was fascinating because I've always thought about music this way. When I was younger I'd close my eyes and visualize 3d structures to represent the songs I'd listen to, and now as an amateur musician I have distinct visual representations in mind for all of my tracks. I've never thought to try going in the other direction, might try it. Thanks for the video levi!

@LeviMcClain Жыл бұрын

Hi John, thanks for sharing your experience with music perception! I appreciate the comment. I’m curious how many people naturally, intuitively think about music in this way. I know that I do and I’ve always thought of it like that even before I had any training in the stuff. It’s neat to be able to give words to some of these ideas and get a conversation started about how we understand music. It’s an underrated topic for sure.

@alfiere1704 Жыл бұрын

I absolutely can't stand the fact that this video hasn't reached that many people. It is the first time I have watched any of your content and I found this video thanks to your tik tok. It is a very fascinating topic and I think you did a great job explaining what was the aim of your experiment and the research that it was based on. Also I really enjoyed the attention you put into details, the editing is phenomenal and the video and audio quality is amazing. I absolutely loved the part where you created the graph, the camera angles and the slow-motion shots just make it more "artistic" (I don't know how else to put it) and that made me want to watch the video til the end. I think that (and keep in mind that i don't know what I'm talking about, I'm just one random person that saw this video and wanted to share something) it could help to put some music under your voice to keep the attention of the listener, just like you did in the graph part. Also you could stop the music to emphasize some important points of the explaination. I noticed that you follow Adam Neely and I believe that you took some inspiration from him (which is great, he is one the most famous music content creators on YT and he is very good) and one thing that I noticed he does in many of his videos, is that he writes some important words on the screen while he's saying them. I believe he does that to underline the most important aspects of his speech, like some keywords. You did it with shapes and symbols in many parts, like the bouba and kiki part or the whole biomechanical explanation, and it helped me immagine these things and stay focused on the topic. But I think that it would also help to have some words pop up like around minute 4, where we just watch you talk for basically 40/50 seconds. That has also to do with the fact that english is not my first language (I'm italian) and it would really help to have some keywords pop up to not lose the point. I just want to say that probably you already know this stuff and you didn't add so many things over the video to make it less chaotic and confusing, and you did a GREAT job; I can't stress this enough, it is an amazing video and you did manage to find the soft spot between chaotic and boring, so maybe this is absolutely wrong and useless to you but I wanted to share my ideas nonetheless. You just got a new subscriber, keep posting amazing stuff like this

@LeviMcClain Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for this kind and thoughtful response. I appreciate the feedback and accept it with open arms! I’ve avoided putting music under my voice this far just due to copyright reasons, but come to think of it I have years worth of instrumental tracks I’ve written that haven’t gone anywhere. I could probably re-purposed them to be part of the video soundtrack. Also agree with the words or graphics. It’s a fine line between being too much and not enough. Thank you for subscribing, I hope my content brings some value to your world!

@danielross8082 Жыл бұрын

Do you know why it hasn't reached most people, I think you probably know why...

@MusicOutofContext Жыл бұрын

This is crazy. I'm usually more focused on the emotional aspect of music. This is a whole new realm I didn't know I needed to see. Awesome video, and production quality!

@LeviMcClain Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! I appreciate it. Love that you can approach music from so many angles: emotionally, narratively, scientifically, mathematically, psychologically., etc. I guess it means that there is always more to learn! And that, for me, is very exciting.

@Pixie_beans Жыл бұрын

Thsi video is really interesting to me, as someone with aphantasia, the lack of the “minds eye”. This helps me better understand how some musicians visualize music. I also play piano and make various songs but i am honestly not sure how I “visualize” music in a different way since I can’t physically do so

@Pixie_beans Жыл бұрын

I think next time I will need to pay attention to how I react when writing or listening to music

@LeviMcClain Жыл бұрын

It's really awesome to see the spectrum of places creativity can come from across different musicians and artists. Some think narratively, some thing visually, some approach it from a purely sound design perspective. Any style can make truly awesome stuff.

@sierra3830 Жыл бұрын

the way ppl interpret different shapes is so interesting. I don't know much about music, but I do know abt character design and shape language in art and it's really cool to see the similarities. In character design, triangles are energetic and sometimes sinister, circles are bouncy, and squares are grounded and calm.

@LeviMcClain Жыл бұрын

Thats really interesting! I know nothing about character design but its neat to see the similarities!

@wilhelmmatthies5921 Жыл бұрын

Each person's interpretation made sense in relation to the graphic composition. I love how they make sense, especially with the verbal responses and yet each is unique.

@LeviMcClain Жыл бұрын

Thats what makes graphic scores so awesome, 1000 different musicians can play the same score and all sound wildly different.

@Multi-Waves_Sketchbook Жыл бұрын

MAYSUNs interpretation was. Breathtaking.

@LeviMcClain Жыл бұрын

He's such an incredible musician, always blown away by him.

@feli9547 Жыл бұрын

No idea how to make sound from it, but the interpretation I got effectively correlates to the rough stages leading to a meltdown for me: everything’s okay, then something happens, more piles on, and at the end everything gets overwhelming until the breaking point arrives.

@LeviMcClain Жыл бұрын

Interpretation through emotions, I like it!

@FASTFASTmusic Жыл бұрын

you answered a question I always had about bouba and kiki. which was: are people influenced by the name BouBa and KiKi which are spelled with a B which is rounded and a K which is has sharp angles. this really speaks in favor of the onomatopoeia rather than the shape of the letter... but then take that a level further and were the sounds B and K designed to look like the sound is representing? great video and absolutely loved all the compositions.

@LeviMcClain Жыл бұрын

Wow fantastic observation. That adds an entirely new level to the game. I didn’t even consider that the physical shape of the lettering and Kiki in bouba might have had a roll to play in all of this, but since you pointed it out… now my mind is blown yet again. I wonder how deep that rabbit hole goes?

@sethtrey Жыл бұрын

@@LeviMcClain I guess we need an audio-only study? Or one focused on the illiterate? Of course, if every written language denote these sounds with relatively pointy glyphs, that probably also answers the question.

@Bear_Hands Жыл бұрын

i remember when vsauce did a bit on the kiki and bouba images a while back, great video!

@LeviMcClain Жыл бұрын

I haven't seen his, I'll have to go check it out! Thank you!

@zooh8017 Жыл бұрын

I’d love to hear what all three sound like together! This is such a cool experiment

@LeviMcClain Жыл бұрын

Thanks! That would sound wild I bet

@nicholasschran9019 27 күн бұрын

I know that this probably wont be seen bc this video is over a year old, but i love this topic and i have asked the very same questions myself as a musician with synesthesia. I have synesthesia that turns sounds into visual things on my minds eye. When I hear music, i am also processing its shapes, colors, and textures as well as the things other people do. But, I have only recently realized i had synesthesia because of the way musicians describe music. We naturally describe it in shapes, colors, and textures, and because of that, I thought that everyone saw what I saw for years. When people described music, to me, it inherrently made sense, even if the descriptors were a little "off" from what i saw - and i rationalized that with "well, maybe they are focusing on different parts of the sound" because to me, sound is so visually complex that there are many different aspects to focus on. But as i started looking into synesthesia, there are not only patterns in how people like me see pitch (higher = lighter in most cases) but also loose patterns in how we see texture and shape of sound too. This matches with how the musicians in your video interpreted the score as well, there were some differences to how i see the sounds, but the overall interpretation made sense. So thank you for making this video - both pointing out the seemingly odd ways we attempt to describe something that is really just controlled air wiggles, and also for confirming that im not crazy, these patterns do exist.

@stephenweigel Жыл бұрын

Levi, this video is fantastic! You have a unique gift for making traditionally “esoteric” topics accessible and fascinating, like a more interesting David Bruce!!! And when you collaborate I discover so many cool artists as well! I relate to Krispy’s college exercises, it’s fun to improvise with graphic scores. And everyone’s pieces were so cool!!! Krispy’s was my favorite to listen to and Julian’s probably proved your hypothesis the most. What’s the deal with the score itself? Is it named; composed by you? Can one “cover” it if inclined, now that the experimental cat is out of the bag? I would be interested in creating something that supported the hypothesis, and something that went against it on purpose, yet still fit.

@LeviMcClain Жыл бұрын

Thank you Stephen! I appreciate it. I just try to create the explainers I wish existed for me when I was just learning all of this stuff. The score is not yet named, I drew it up entirely for this video. I can send you over the files for it if you’re interested in covering it! The juxtaposition of doing two pieces with the same score, one that went against the grain, and one that went with it is a really interesting idea! I’d love to see what you could do with it.

@nathancoffman3025 Жыл бұрын

I’m definitely more on the story interpretation side of isle. I think it also illustrates the artists creativity more clearly.

@LeviMcClain Жыл бұрын

For sure! I guess the approaches illustrate how everyone thinks differently about the same idea

@SavannahAlexandraArt Жыл бұрын

I found you from tiktok. I LOVE stuff like this. I’m an artist but I also love music and this stuff ALWAYS makes me think of Fantasia!!

@LeviMcClain Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the support! I appreciate your kind words!!

@wilhelmmatthies5921 Жыл бұрын

Superb interpretation Maysun!

@_Helm_ Жыл бұрын

the whole video is fascinating and beautiful. all the pieces made are stunning. Thank you for doing all of this. I want to tell you that the Krispy song arrested me, I started crying. It's not the most common thing to start weeping at exercises in the Xenakis vein. For this I thank Krispy extra, truly beautiful and inscrutable, so there's something undeniable to that combo.

@eliaslanderos2346 10 ай бұрын

Really enjoyed this video. Currently researching topics for a capstone project and this video has helped me a lot. Thanks 🙏

@wilhelmmatthies5921 Жыл бұрын

Great job Julian!

@paultrubey8508 Жыл бұрын

This has helped me understand what i have only had a sense of. the connection between linguistic, intuitive, and interpretive connections that now have a more (concrete) understanding of something largely so abstract if that manors any sense. Thank you for this journey afforded by this beautifully done exploration. thank you

@wilhelmmatthies5921 Жыл бұрын

Wow, Krispy did a great job too!

@thegeeeeeeeeee 2 ай бұрын

I’ve never seen a graphical score before but your final product was so beautiful and cool. I’d hang it on my wall. Everyone’s interpretation was great! Another amazing video. Thanks for the content 🙏

@bigjoob4831 Жыл бұрын

This channel has an unbelievable amount of potential, such interesting topics! I’m excited to see where this goes

@LeviMcClain Жыл бұрын

Appreciate it! I have a lot of stuff in the works for the channel that I hope to share more of soon.

@NoelHasFeathers Жыл бұрын

found this on tiktok and am extremely fascinated ! commenting for engagement because your production quality definitely deserves more views , looking forward to more videos from u

@LeviMcClain Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the comment! Glad you enjoyed it

@sillyseal Жыл бұрын

such an awesome concept for a video!!! keep up thr good content

@LeviMcClain Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! I will keep up the good fight!

@T3hMarz Жыл бұрын

Great video! I think descriptions for music are more linked to the physical way you play them. If I told someone to "lean into the crunchy notes" while they were playing piano, most pianists would understand intuitively to use more weight and therefore more volume on dissonances, just as saying play this sharply would be more of a short attack. I think an interesting idea would be to see if different instruments interpret an instruction differently, such as saying "play roundly" to a professional musician from each different family of instruments.

@LeviMcClain Жыл бұрын

I think you’re right, great observation! The physicality of it certainly plays a role. when I’m trying to play “heavier“ I usually lay into my strings a lot more aggressively, which certainly lends to the sound itself.

@xenontesla122 Жыл бұрын

Very interesting idea! And I love being introduced to these amazing artists!

@LeviMcClain Жыл бұрын

Thank you! These guys are what made this video great. Love all of their work.

@elrondhubbard9127 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for this. Hard to believe you only have 1.25k subs. Only a matter of time till 1million subs 🙏🙏

@sharptrickster 11 ай бұрын

I may be deriving the wrong conclusion here but, in a way, even more imprecise language and notation may inspire creative musicians to tap into unexplored things inside them to create beautiful music with less restrictions. To draw the score is to ask open ended questions that can only be answered after some kind of internal struggle to frame it in a way that makes sense to the player himself, as a kind of meditation on music that a musician wont experience when playing symbols he internalized the meaning for. So, in the end, we may not get the music the writer intended or envisioned, but we get music that musicians would not be inspired and able to create otherwise.

@christianhowell3140 Жыл бұрын

That first part got to me cuz I got a bandmate who calls the lowest string on a guitar the "top string" because it's physically above all the other strings and I don't know how to explain it to him that guitars are just backwards

@LeviMcClain Жыл бұрын

I've noticed when giving first lessons to people picking up a guitar or bass that when you refer to "up" or "higher on the neck" there will always be a certain percentage of people who instinctively move in the wrong direction, up towards the headstock. I guess it makes sense in a way, as it is literally higher towards the sky hahaha

@nogameirl4286 Жыл бұрын

Coolest video I’ve seen this year!

@Cloveis Жыл бұрын

This is amazing, I’d call this a contribution to the scientific community. This entire channel is VERY underrated. Keep it up! I’m sure this will go somewhere.

@LeviMcClain Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much! I hope we can get some actual studies on this one day!

@brendenevans1186 Жыл бұрын

Loved this video is a great dive into perception that i hope people will watch

@LeviMcClain Жыл бұрын

Thank you! I hope so too hahaha

@rowan992 Жыл бұрын

I found this so fascinating to watch, I am fascinated by music and I love the way that the two shape scores resulted in different sounds and interpretations, however none of the ways the the artists made that score into music was the way that I would have done it but I can completely see how and why they came to translate the markings into music the way that they did and I wish I could create it into a piece of music that represents how I see it. I am also just obsessed with the way that the score is presented through the lines and shapes and I can see so many patterns and chords and sounds and dynamics that I would translate it into. for example on the bottom one where the black and white triangles are on the lines and are upside down or the right way up I would see them as sharp three note chords because of the three points and the black ones would be black notes or minor chords and the white ones would be white notes or major chords and whether they were upside down or not would determine whether or not they were played in an ascending or descending way and also how high or low they are on the lines would translate to the pitch of the chords. and again I found this intriguing to watch so thank you :)

@LeviMcClain Жыл бұрын

I think the amazing thing about graphic scores in general, is that 1000 different musicians could play “the same piece“ and it would sound different every single time. and there is no rigid “correct“ way to play or interpret it, yet we are still able to observe commonalities between each different performance.

@oneleuddude Жыл бұрын

156 likes and two weeks ago? This deserves at least like 100k views

@LeviMcClain Жыл бұрын

I wish! Maybe in a couple years I'll be doing those numbers if I'm lucky! Thank you!

@grantingtherant1465 Жыл бұрын

Heck yeah Levi, this is awesome!

@LeviMcClain Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! I really appreciate it!

@drauglurdarkambient Жыл бұрын

Your music, your art just magnificient got yourself a new sub here hails from drauglur from germany

@LeviMcClain Жыл бұрын

I really appreciate that! Danke!!

@LenVrijhof Жыл бұрын

Excellent research!

@LeviMcClain Жыл бұрын

Thank you! Appreciate your viewership!

@FASTFASTmusic Жыл бұрын

I just made a video about musical shapes and how I like them to tessellate! excited for this :)

@LeviMcClain Жыл бұрын

Just watched it! Really great video, I love the symmetrical idea in your lines.

@thestrangequarksexperience501 Жыл бұрын

i think, seeing 3d-structures when you hear music, is a kind of synesthesia. when i first heard of synesthesia, they only said, that people with synesthesia could see colors, when hearing music. so i first thought, i dont have that, because i "only" see shapes. every sound has a certain shape... bass is like blocks, hihats are small stars, pads are long bands... what i also find strange: i perceive high tones as light and cold, and low tones as dark and warm. this also helps me to tune an instrument. (if im not sure wich tune is lower, i see it is the darker one.)

@LeviMcClain Жыл бұрын

That must be a fascinating experience! I experience images and scenes in my head when I listen to music but nothing that is consistent like how synesthesia presents, as in A minor = Blue or something like that. For me it's different every time. I wonder how common what you experience is in people. Into the depths of Google Scholar I go!

@thestrangequarksexperience501 Жыл бұрын

@@LeviMcClain yes, its nice. 😁 especially electronic music triggers the shapes for me. i think it makes me perceive music more intensely. yes, music also triggers inner landscapes for me, for me every intrumentel song also tells a story. i don't know how rarely what i perceive is, i don't know anyone who expiriences the same thing. only one person told me that he perceives instruments as weather (e.g. drums = thunder, guitar = wind, singing = sunshine). also very interesting.

@spykids2 Жыл бұрын

1:25 runaway starts playing

@jalaristv7512 Жыл бұрын

4:49 I am struggling to describe pitch in any other that doesn't reference high or low Fast and slow? Because that's how different pitches are created, through slow or fast vibrations.

@LeviMcClain Жыл бұрын

Nice! I didn’t think of that. Definitely a great way to go about it, and more than that a more true to source way of conceptualizing it.

@agzsounds2246 Жыл бұрын

WOW! This is fascinating! Thank you, and Happy Easter. May God bless all of us his children!

@greydevorator49 2 ай бұрын

HI! I think I went to HighSchool with you so having you show up in my recommended videos is kindof a trip. So. EYYYYYYYYYYYY Nice to see you. Ok not think. Pretty sure I got a yearbook that proves it.

@sweeterthananything 5 ай бұрын

The kiki/bouba effect seems to be PARTIALLY influenced by the subject’s primary language and probably to some extent by writing script-the latter of which would make it not fully crossmodal in association with another visual element. I’m saying this because it makes the subject all the more interesting to me-our brains just want to make stimuli smoothies all day. But apparently even Turkish is one of the languages where the effect has failed to show, and they use a variant Latin alphabet with fairly standard B and K (for the past century anyway) so there’s even more weird cognition possibly at work. Great video.

@Rouleaux Жыл бұрын

Fantastic video

@LeviMcClain Жыл бұрын

Thank you!!

@tanmayshekhawat Жыл бұрын

I could relate with Julian's interpretation the most. I follow him on Instagram, and now I know why I gravitated towards him and followed him: LOTR.

@LeviMcClain Жыл бұрын

LOTR for life! I did a short music theory video on the shire a while ago and want so bad to do a full deep dive into it.

@fraga2328 Жыл бұрын

this is incredibily interesting! As an anthropology student i would LOVE to see how this works across non-occidental cultures, and even, like with the bouba/kiki experiment, with autistic musicians!! fascinating!!! EDIT: Have we thought about color in these scores? i really liked the use of texture and what it evoked in these musicians. Also, we saw a lot of the effect of digital music training in this, what about traditional musicians not trained in digital music!!! oh god this is so interesting

@sspringNG Жыл бұрын

They were all interesting but Julian’s was definitely the most appealing

@LeviMcClain Жыл бұрын

Julian is the bomb dot com

@annastang7610 Жыл бұрын

hello! this video is wonderful! I’m actually studying to be an art teacher, and i’m currently making a lesson plan based on making fictional environments inspired by the students choice of song. I was wondering if I could link this video in my lesson to better help students understand? It perfectly captures what I want to talk about!

@LeviMcClain Жыл бұрын

Please do! I know I'm responding a little late, but if you haven't done your lesson yet, please feel free to use this!

@loveslayer718 4 ай бұрын

Amazing

@xlorrix-6320 Жыл бұрын

this deserves more likes

@LeviMcClain Жыл бұрын

I appreciate that!

@luminousdragon Жыл бұрын

I am very interested in this subject. In fact I have made a number of visualizations of music, in the form of largely abstract music videos. Ive removed a number of them but I have a playlist of 4 here: kzfaq.info/sun/PLXdULyBkaPQgdMm49aVJ0zmCz7iaWE99v Ive done a lot of research into this subject, and would love to talk to more about it if youd be interested.

@adamguymon7096 Жыл бұрын

My best friend is totally blind with light perception. She was talking to me about how she can see shapes. Since she couldn't see anything such as shapes she was telling me that her voice is more like wavey lines that are sold but she told me that my voice was dotted wavey lines. I was born legally blind with some usable vision. I wish that I could see how she sees shapes? The fact is that I can see colors and shapes where she would have to feel a physical shape to understand what that shape looks like. Sometimes I feel like she is more advance than me. I sort of feel like I am way behind her and other people who understand her and I will be left out? Are there videos out there that can describe what I am asking and about what my best friend was describing to me how our voices are different but the same?

@lavenderfana3137 Жыл бұрын

I like your vid, but i do wish you talked more about how other cultures might see pitch or other information. Like the idea that a higher frequency is a higher pitch isn’t a universal given, and the assumption that it is feels wrong.

@danielross8082 Жыл бұрын

This is one of the most important videos produced in youtube history. You have answered questions ive had my whole life. wow. LOL listen to this song "KIKI" by Drake. Pitch related to gender in names?

@LeviMcClain Жыл бұрын

Well thank you!! Don't know it its that important, but thank you all the same!

@danielross8082 Жыл бұрын

@@LeviMcClain Your work is a stepping stone to the integration of quantum physics, psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, computer science, music etc. But it’s not that important (dialectic)? But you know another man’s trash another man’s treasure lol.

@johncasey9544 Жыл бұрын

wait wtf this seemed like a veritasium video or something in terms of production quality why do you have 870 subs?

@LeviMcClain Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the comparison!! I hope to have half the quality and thought Derek puts into those videos one day. Until then, I’ll keep trucking along!

@traz5673 Жыл бұрын

very good nothing else to say

@user-ib9gi1kl6d Ай бұрын

790

@originalname7176 Жыл бұрын

1:52 Thats a 16-edo piano

@WinItReigns 2 ай бұрын

I kind of want to hear them overlayed

@WinItReigns 2 ай бұрын

that dude is right too, it looks like a map of middle earth

@WinItReigns 2 ай бұрын

The Imagery is just like NASA Gold Disk we sent to space. At least thats what it reminds me of...... I hope I didnt miss something here

@TomatoFettuccini Жыл бұрын

It's not arbitrary. "Higher" or "lower" means higher or lower frequency. "Pitch" is just another word for "frequency". That's why the first F is "high" and the second is "low". I shouldn't have to explain this to a musician as this is Music Fundamentals 101.

@LeviMcClain Жыл бұрын

Hi Tomato 🍅, thanks for your comment. I totally agree, it’s not arbitrary. I even made sure to clarify as much in the video after I said “it may SEEM arbitrary but…” I think you may be getting caught up in semantics here. You can use frequency and pitch interchangeably, the reasoning in the question is unaffected. You can say pitch is understood and named by higher or lower frequency sure, but the heart of the question is still unanswered; why those words specifically? I know it feels pedantic, but pinning down this seemingly intuitive detail with some exact rigor helps lay the foundation that the rest of the video and experiment is built off of. Thank you for engaging!